How British Women Writers Transformed the Campus Novel: Virginia Woolf, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margaret Drabble, Anita Brookner, Jea

This book focuses on recurring representations of women intellectual characters and their relationship to (and reactions against) both matrilineal and patriarchal traditions in fiction writing and academia, arguing that 20th century British women writers work through their anxieties regarding gender and scholarship through their use (or misuse) of convention, phrasing, and vexed characters.